he Italian Schola, founded in 1575, is the simplest of the Venetian synagogues; it results, anyway to be the most luminous one, thanks to five wide windows opening on the south side of the square, and the most austere for the lacking of the gleaming tones of the golden leaf decorating the two Ashkenazi synagogues. Even in the Italian Synagogue the two focuses, 'Aron and Tevah, dominate. The Tevah, in particular, is in a very high position respect to the floor of the cultual room, thus giving to the whole elegant structure, on square plant, an harmonic simplicity.